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Hal Rubenstein's Pick
- Calle Ocho
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446 Columbus Avenue, 212-873-5025
Lots of space, a sense of celebration, and Doug Rodriguez’s food. That’s a party.
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Adam Platt's Pick
- Sparks
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210 East 46th Street, 212-687-4855
No one’s better at handling unruly herds of carnivores.
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Robin Raisfeld's Pick
- Blue Ribbon Bakery
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3 Downing Street, 212-337-0404
The snug basement alcove is so close to the open kitchen and bread oven it’s practically a chef’s table.
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Rob Patronite's Pick
- Salut
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63-42 108th Street, Forest Hills, Queens
For footlong skewers of charcoal-grilled meat and a BYOB vodka-induced frenzy.
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Our mission this year: to hunt down not just the best but the best values in the eating, shopping, drinking, and general-consuming universe of New York. It’s quite the process, this, requiring eating and shopping and drinking (all in the name of research), followed by heated but civil discussion, and heated but less-civil discussion, until a winner emerges in each category.
